4/7/2019 10:06:02 AM · by FreedomPoster · 48 replies
American Thinker ^ | April 7, 2019 | Thomas Lifson
Posted on 04/12/2019 12:42:53 PM PDT by max americana
I feel ya.
I hear you. I tell my daughters that it’s annoying.
Fact is we are just getting old. The young whipper snappers just annoy us. If they just acted like us it would be so much easier.
The problem I have with the kids is they do not know how to pick up a phone to get stuff done. They send emails back and forth throughout the day on a problem that could have been solved fist thing in the morning if they would just picked up the phone. I call it “playing office” instead of working.
I had 60 men working for me at a three dragline coal mine in the early 80s. No one used “like” or “you know.”
One fellow had a habit of adding “...what I did,” to the end of his sentences.
“I changed the oil in the scrapers, what I did.”
Sometimes it became “...what I were.”
He was from north Missouri...
Would you hire that guy? Of course not. Who needs a self serving pretentious look-at-me ass?
I went to an interview once....before the interview started I went into the men’s room. Turned out that the bottom of the door was just short of the height of my foot. When the door closed it ripped the top off of my shoe. I ended up with a sandal on my right foot. Made for a good ice breaker. Got the position and thrived with the company until I retired. It was a good pair of shoes too.
wow..467 times? Insanity..
lol seriously?
Without being too picky, there are at least 10 grammatical errors in your (mercifully) brief vanity. Physician, heal thyself.
That sounds quite British. I used to hear “I did” sometimes.
I can tell by the resume whether I want to talk to this person.
I always specify interview attire, just for the record. Shirt with a collar and tie, dress pants and shoes. Jacket not needed and is often in the way.
If I don’t specify... then you get what you get.
I have a cousin who graduated from Harvard Law 3 years ago. He used to be “whazzup dog” or “ah bro, that’s cool” etc, but he is very professional when talking with clients. I did read his notes for a client one time and i could not believe this is the same guy.
It’s almost as if he has a “switch” from lawyer mode..to dude mode.
“I always specify interview attire, just for the record”
Yes, we do specify this. However, some applicants believe the sun evolves around them..
As far as interviews, I *ALWAYS* interview in the nude.
I also go to ALL my meetings in the nude.
Of course, I work and interview from home, on the phone, so there is that.
Yes.
Granted it was for a temp position but STILL!!!
He had no chance.
I called the temp agency after that.
He was a friend of someone who already worked there and I guess thought that would make ANY difference.
“It’s like,
Well,
You Know,
You’re Opinion,
Man.”
The Big Lebowski
I worked with a early 30s guy in the 80s who could NOT get out more than three sentences before uttering “...this, that and the other thing.” At least the “like” verbal tic is over quickly, but not his verbal tic. It never had anything to do with the subject at hand, either.
Gaaa...I hadn’t thought about that in 30 years, now I can hear his voice! Thanks a lot, Eric.
He could cut his 10 min. daily segment down to 7 mins if he stopped saying you know, you know?
You “Got Me!”
When I was growing up anytime I, my sister, or any of our friends repeated the phrase “you know” more than once while making a statement my one of my parents would interrupt our conversation. The parent who was present would get all of our attention and state “why no, I don't know. Why don't you tell me about it?” Before conversation resumed.
Generally our friends dropped that bad habit pretty quickly, and still laugh about it to day.
I work with a guy who interjects “like, you know, so” every 5-10 words.
He’s good at his job, but the verbiage drives me nuts.
He knows it’s a bad habit, but can’t break it.
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